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Article: TWO LOVERS ALSO BROUGHT US REASON.(P-I Focus)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 11, 1998
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Now that the calendar has turned, I too begin to anticipate the more dramatic turning of the millennium. Over the next couple of years I will take as subjects figures who have put a special mark on the thousand-year epoch that draws to an end. Today, I invite you to cast your mind back nearly the full sweep of that time, to consider a man and a woman whose love affair became a legend, but whose shared intellectual commitment launched a train of thought that still moves. Here is the story of Abelard and Heloise.
The city is Paris. The year is 1118 or so. A school has been established at the ancient Frankish cathedral on the island in the Seine. Combining skills of ...